How to Hire Professional Translators From Your WordPress Dashboard

One of the main problems when translating a WordPress website is to find a translation service (or a professional translator) who knows WordPress and also is specialized in the content of your blog, whether it is technical knowledge (engineering, medical, etc) or creative writing experience (marketing content).

There are two great professional translation options available (with their pros and cons) for localize your website that are integrated directly into WordPress: TextMaster and ICanLocalize. These services give you access from the WordPress dashboard to a large number of translators (or even writers) who can help you to make your site multilingual or create engaging content for your blog or website.

This way you can manage translations form your WordPress admin panel more efficiently since you avoid having to copy and paste text and you can keep links, images, etc of your original WordPress pages.

1. TextMaster

Recently I’ve been using a free WordPress plugin to order professional translations of some articles of this blog into German. This plugin has been developed by a startup called TextMaster, that offers professional translation, web content writing and proofreading services by native speakers in more than 20 languages.

This plugin, called WP TextMaster, gives you access from the WordPress admin panel to over 60.000 writers and translators. No matter what translation plugin you’re using. WP TextMaster plugin is seamlessly integrated with human translation plugins (WPML, Polylang, mqTranslate, etc). The plugin is visible in your sidebar when you create or duplicate posts or pages. Once you placed your order for translation, proofreading or copywriting, you’ll see a notification when it is complete. So all you need to do is enable multilingual posts or pages and automatically replace the text in those languages.

Advantages

It’s free to download and with the automatic wordcount feature in WordPress, you’ll see an instant quote before you order

You can use it with most of human translation plugins: WPML, Polylang or mqTranslate

Proofreading service. If you’re not feeling confident about the quality of your web content (maybe you’re not good at grammar), you can have it proofread and automatically reintegrated into your WordPress site ($0.026 per word)

Copywriting. It also includes the option to add multilingual SEO web content to your site. Just create a new copywriting order, write your instructions in the body, enter the desired word count, specify your keywords and click Order ($0.02/word)

Disadvantages

You can’t send to translate widgets, categories and tags. What I do is create a post with all these texts, send it to translate and then copy and paste texts in widgets and categories

It involves installing another plugin. I recommend disabling the plugin when finished translations

2. ICanLocalize

ICanLocalize is the author of WPML, the best known WordPress translation plugin. They know exactly what it takes to run a multilingual WordPress site. Their own site is using WPML and ICanLocalize translations services.

You can receive a translation quote, interview and choose translators, send content for translation and get them back, ready to publish

Advantages

ICanLocalize is fully integrated into WPML. No need to install another plugin

You can translate everything (posts, pages, widgets, categories, tags, menus, etc) and you can see an instant quote before you order

You can choose your translator from the WordPress dashboard. There are many professional translators experts in different fields. You can find the ones that are best for your website content

There are more than 1000 translators and translating between over 45 languages

3. Other alternatives

Transfluent WordPress plugin. Transfluent is a translation company that has developed a plugin that adds multilingual support to WordPress. You can order translations for blog posts and pages from the WordPress dashboard.

WordBee. This translation company has developed a plugin (Beebox) to translate your WordPress site with professional translators and WPML.

Lingotek. Another translation service with a plugin to translate WordPress with native translators and Polylang plugin.

Are you using any of these translation services? I would like to hear your experience using translation services integrated in WordPress

About the Author

Irena is the creator of the blog WPLANG (WordPress Multilingual) and a professional specialized in website localization. Irena now helps others to create a WordPress website in one language or create a multilingual WordPress website.

Note that some articles of this blog contains affiliate links, so I make a few bucks if you use them. This won't cost you anything but helps me to keep the lights on (so to speak). Thank you very much. Irena